We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it…

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

— Woody Allen

“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the…

— Ronald Carter

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your…

— Stephen Hunter

“Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful…

— John Gardner

“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf

— Christopher Paolini

“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast…

— Seamus Heaney

“A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour, ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat, laid out…

— Seamus Heaney

Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a…

— Burton Raffel

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

— Seamus Heaney

“4. The whole Icarus-flying-too-near-the-sun-and-plummeting-out-of-the-sky thing? That's real. Same with the Sirens who lure you to death with their irresistible song, and the odalisque so…

— Todd Hanson

“Eleven or twelve hundred years ago the poem Beowulf explored the contradictions of treasure: jewels and gold that when they have been bard won…

— Suzanne Keene

Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong…

— Burton Raffel

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an…

— Brand Blanshard

“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured around the…

— Maria Dahvana Headley